<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Very nice said Christoph ! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Merry Christmas to you, to our group and whole World ! :)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">bye</div><div class="">Nicola</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 15, 2019, at 11:09 AM, Thiede, Christoph <<a href="mailto:Christoph.Thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de" class="">Christoph.Thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Dear all!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">It's now one and a half year since I met Smalltalk and Squeak. And I am convinced that it was the best thing that could have happened to me! I am very grateful that this beautiful ecosystem exists, a haven of simple expressivity and usability, of liveness and explorability, and a haven of collaborativity. And I am even more grateful that still in 2019, where more and more hip, short-lived environments & languages attract your attention (of which, certainly, many may be smart and useful, but most definitely, hardly anyone will come close to Squeak in terms of abstraction and modifiability) - even today, you are being here and keep contributing to Squeak!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">I would like to thank you for all the energy you daily </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">put into </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">development and maintenance of Squeak, and for being such a great community.</span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""></laudation> ;-)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">This year, I had the idea to celebrate Squeak with a small collection of<b class="">XmasDecorations.</b> These include several small modifications of the Trunk image, with the aim to bring the Christmas spirit into our favorite system. They're nothing special, but I think they are a good example for the advantages of Squeak's universal extensibility:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span id="cid:c2334de2-7f43-46a2-a08f-5f1d38e92ce2"><pastedImage.png></span><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Features include, but are not limited to:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;" class="">⭐</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a Christmas theme (compatible with your preferred UI theme, supports both light & dark mode)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;" class="">⭐</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a new full-screen WallpaperMorph</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;" class="">⭐</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>dynamic snow blizzards (with performance optimization)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;" class="">⭐</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and further, more or less hidden features!</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">If you would like to download it, you are cordially invited to do so! Everything you need to do is:</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" class=""><li class="">Update your Trunk image</li><li class="">Do it:<br class=""><div class="highlight highlight-source-smalltalk" style="margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(36, 41, 46); font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><pre style="font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, monospace; font-size: 13.6px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 16px; overflow: auto; line-height: 1.45; background-color: rgb(246, 248, 250); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; word-break: normal;" class=""><span class="pl-c1" style="color: rgb(0, 92, 197);">Metacello</span> <span class="pl-k" style="color: rgb(215, 58, 73);">new</span>
<span class="pl-c1" style="color: rgb(0, 92, 197);">baseline:</span> <span class="pl-s" style="color: rgb(3, 47, 98);"><span class="pl-pds">'</span>XmasDecorations<span class="pl-pds">'</span></span>;
<span class="pl-c1" style="color: rgb(0, 92, 197);">repository:</span> <span class="pl-s" style="color: rgb(3, 47, 98);"><span class="pl-pds">'</span><a href="github://LinqLover/XmasDecorations:release/packages" class="">github://LinqLover/XmasDecorations:release/packages</a><span class="pl-pds">'</span></span>;
load.</pre></div></li><li class="">And don't be afraid of Christmas Every Day, the integrated Christmas Detection™ will automatically undecorate your image on January, 6th (unless you opt-out via Apps > XmasDecorations)!</li></ol><div class="">The graphics were created in cooperation with a few fellow students and a lot of Google; but in the main, I'm an enthusiast in terms of software design, not of graphics design, so don't expect an artistic masterpiece :P</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The source code can be found on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/LinqLover/XmasDecorations" class="OWAAutoLink">GitHub</a>. I don't need to say that every kind of feedback or contribution is highly welcome.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would like to wish you lots of fun with XmasDecorations & Squeak in general, and a merry Christmas time, online as well as offline.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">Christoph</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>